A new report by a Senate Democrat said a classified document prepared by Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, not only asserted that there were ties between the Baghdad government and the terrorist network, but also did not reflect accurately the intelligence agencies' assessment -- even while claiming that it did.

The F.B.I. is investigating a Pentagon official on suspicion of passing secrets to Israel, government officials said Friday. The espionage investigation has focused on an official who works in the office of Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, officials who have been briefed about the investigation said.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is investigating whether a two-man team -- named the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group by its creator, Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy -- exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq to justify the war.

The Pentagon's top policy adviser, Douglas J. Feith, held an unusual briefing today to rebut accusations that senior civilian policy makers had politicized intelligence to fit their hawkish views on Iraq and to justify war on Saddam Hussein.

In January 1998, a lineup of conservative policy advocates warned President Clinton in an open letter that the ''containment'' of Iraq was a failure and that removing Saddam Hussein from power ''now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.''

Last June, Douglas J. Feith, a former top Pentagon official involved in planning the Iraq war, was hired by a Defense Department graduate school for military officers and diplomats, with a four-year contract that was to pay him half a million...

Last June, Douglas J. Feith, a former top Pentagon official, was hired by a Defense Department graduate school with a four-year contract that was to pay him half a million dollars, Pentagon records show.

February 15, 2007, Thursday

To the Editor: Re ''Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says'' (front page, Feb. 10): Are we to believe an administration that cried wolf when there was no wolf in Iraq? We've been lied to so much by the Bush crowd that it is...

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday that he would ask current and former White House aides to testify about a report by the Pentagon's inspector general that criticizes the Pentagon for compiling ''alternative...